Improvement in stamps for fruit-cans



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"JAcoBvKINZER, in Pirrsnie, PENNSYLVANIA;

" j Laim perennemente, mamy 17,1870.

IMrRovnMnNT `:n "STAMPS ron FRUIT-eens.'

Ther Schedule rejerredjto i`n these Letters Patent and making part ot. thesame.

`LlJscoB KrNzER,*of Pittsburg, `in the county of 4 g Allegheny ,andf `State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful` Fruitand Preserve Stamp, of which the following isa speciiication.` p y My invention relatesjto a metallic stamp for mark- 1 ingfruitand preservecansor 'ai-s, the impress of said stamp being made in theccmentor wax used in sealing,-

said cans or jars. l

i l Vlescr'iptz'on `0j"Accoalpen-ying Drawing.

Figure 1 isa perspective yiew of ten stamps coinbined in one castng,`the stamping-surfaces being upon v the upper and lower faces of each arm, as A Figure? is aside view of tbes'ame. l Figure 3 is aplan ofthe same. p Figure 4 `a "deview cfa setof stamps yconsisting y of ten, soarranged that each stamp is joined to two others facing in an oppositedirection.

Figure 5 is a plan `of one stamping-surillcc'of the same. l i

Generalljcscriptiom The stamps are cast'in `the ordinary manner in a two-part flask, care being taken that pattern-letters [are so constructed as to. leave a clear print for the metah Or, I manufacture bycornpression, in dies of any approved material, a stamp consisting of' a n umber of segments of circles', joined together with their convex portions toward the center of the group, each of said segments being constructed of a'toim to t into the-recess around the can-lid, and bearing a name l tio' he impressed upon the wax or cement placed 1n saidrecess for thepurpose of sealingV the can, the

segments being constructed to" make impressions top and bottom, and joined together in a manner to admit, when one is being used, of -the remainder clearing the-swell usually found on the outside -edge of can-tops. f f

The can or jar is sealed in the ordinary manner, the

desired impression being made by simple pressure of the stampbearing the desired name upon the warm cement or wax used in sealing.

Claim.

l claim the construction of the segment-stamps a,

lia-ving the spaces or depressions d d between the segments, in the manner and for the purpose as set forth.- JACO B KINZER.

i Witnesses:

JNO. W. CULMER, DANL. KINZER. 

